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It’s just about that time of year where the holidays are far enough in the rearview mirror that I begin to hear friends and family talking about “gray January” and symptoms of the winter blues. Whenever I hear this, I remind myself and my loved ones of what Richard Rohr once said, “Faith is remembering in the darkness what we have seen in the light.”

This time of year, there is a lot more darkness than light. We leave for work or school — it’s dark. We come home from work or school — and it’s dark. We have the weekends off! But it’s cloudy and cold…It is really important for our mental health and life, as we move further from the holidays and spring seems impossibly far into the future, that we remember what we’ve seen in the light.

My challenge to you today is to close your eyes. Picture yourself on an early day in spring, the sun warming your face and the truth that on that day the best is yet to come.

John answers one question on “living inspired” every Tuesday. Email your questions to info at JohnOLearyInspires.com. When John was 9, he suffered burns on 100% of his body and was expected to die. He is now the author of No. 1 National Bestselling book ON FIRE and an inspirational speaker teaching 50,000+ people each year how to live inspired. Get inspiration in your inbox every Monday here.

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